[pkg-fso-maint] Packaging release versions of FSO components
Simon Busch
morphis at gravedo.de
Tue May 8 10:51:08 UTC 2012
> Sorry, I don't use Ubuntu so cannot judge if your approach is sensible.
It's just the same as you would do with apt-get source if you're in
Debian sid.
> I dearly recommend that you use --pristine-source with the -import-orig
> command. And that you use signed tags everywhere possible.
There is no --pristine-source option for git-import-orig but I think you
mean --pristine-tar. Pristine-tar is preferred because it's using the
original upstream tarball instead of recreating it from it's extract in
git, right?
>>> I recommend using alioth.debian.org instead. It also supports
>>> personal repositories, if what you want is some preliminary
>>> location.
>>
>> Yes, that would be the primrary target for the repositories. Currently
>> there are the repositories for the old-git-snapshot-based variant of
>> the FSO packages. If the FSO maintainers decide to switch to a
>> release-based packaged version of FSO we should rename the old
>> repositories to something like old-libfsosystem and push the new ones.
>
> Seems to me that we are talking past each other. I talk about using
> Alioth instead of the external (and commercial) Github.
Ok, got it :)
regards,
Simon
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